Summary:

Understanding how poverty and inequalities affect children is central to understanding the impact of the MDGs and development of the post-2015 agenda.

This paper draws together research from across the Young Lives longitudinal study of child poverty to answer questions about how inequality shapes children’s development. Our conclusions are wide-ranging – spanning education, health and nutrition, and psychosocial development. Overall, the evidence is clear – that children from the poorest households are most vulnerable and quickly fall behind their peers, in terms of equality of opport

http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/pp/what-inequality-means-for-children

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younglives@younglives.org.uk

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